Anomynous, 14 May 2014I dont want no 4.3 720p, thats lame. 4.5" Full HD, deliver4 high end or go home Somny, th... moreThere is AQUOS PHONE SERIE mini SHL24 with 4.5" Full HD IGZO display and compact design. Unfortunately, it can't be unlocked and used by another cellular operators since KDDI doesn't offering SIM-Unlock program for their line-ups.

I dont want no 4.3 720p, thats lame. 4.5" Full HD, deliver4 high end or go home Somny, this isnt any better than S5 Mini and M8 Mini, just faster processor that noone need most of the time. Very disappointed.

007roh, 14 May 2014I don't see any good reason to buy A2, as it is completely similar to Z1 Compact.
Three thi... moreSince the Xperia A is a Japanese version of Xperia ZR, so I believe this A2 is either a ZR successor or just a Z1C with new patch of colours, I agreed with you that it would be nice to see Z2C have a bigger display and battery.

But the main goal of the compact version is to keep things small, so perhaps the compact version should not follow the current trend which the successor will always gone bigger than its predecessor. Or else, the compact version will eventually be become not-compact anymore...

Virtruvian, 14 May 2014Uh, no.
The Xperia line up are always uni body with no removable covers.
However, let's ... moreAlso let's hope the flash-bleed issue that affected so many Z1 Compact units is fixed once and for all in the Z2 Compact.

It's such a shame that a phone with a camera like the Z1 Compact produced photos (in the night with flash) that ranged from pure unusable crap to just poor quality given the prominent flash in a part of the photo.

Thankfully I've been hearing reports that this issue has been fixed in the very latest Z1 Compact units, but previous owners who are affected by this are still stuck with no solution in sight.

Adamant22, 14 May 2014So it's still has huge bezels all around.
Sony should've made it slimmer & put at least a... morehuge bezels? so as per you integrating flagship specs in a smaller version is an easy task?
anyways no phone can have bigger bezels then that of a iPhone or HTC